After Testimony The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future / edited by Jakob Lothe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and James Phelan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phelan, James, 1951-

Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-

Lothe, Jakob.

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 380 p. :) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2012.

Contents:

Imre Kertesz's fatelessness : fiction as testimony / J. Hillis Miller

Challenges for the successor generations of German-Jewish authors in Germany / Beatrice Sandberg

Recent literature confronting the past : France and beyond / Philippe Mesnard, translated by Terence Cave

Performing a perpetrator as witness : Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes / Susan Rubin Suleiman

The ethics and aesthetics of backward narration in Martin Amis's Time's arrow / James Phelan

The face-to-face encounter in Holocaust narrative / Jeremy Hawthorn

Knowing little, adding nothing : the ethics and aesthetics of remembering in Espen Sobye's Kathe, always lived in Norway / Anniken Greve

"When facts are scarce" : authenticating strategies in writing by children of survivors / Irene Kacandes

Objects of return / Marianne Hirsch

Narrative, memory, and visual image : W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur and Austerlitz / Jakob Lothe

Which narrative of Auschwitz? A narrative analysis of Laurence Rees's documentary Auschwitz : the Nazis and "the final solution" / Anette H. Storeide

Moving testimonies : "unhomed geography" and the Holocaust documentary of return / Janet Walker

From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount : binding and unbinding the Israeli narrative / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

The melancholy generation : Grossman's Book of interior grammar / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

Fractured relations : the multidirectional Holocaust memory of Caryl Phillips / Michael Rothberg

Hiroshima and the Holocaust : tales of war and defeat in Japan and Germany-a contrastive perspective / Anne Thelle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8142-7042-5

OCLC:

868082941